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Announced dates and actual dates are two different beasts apparently... Actual RTM date for Windows 7 was July 24, 2009, a Friday no less.

It could be worse... at a previous company I noticed our RMA forms printed out with each word with the first letter capitalised. Somehow no one noticed it before. The web developer took a look and said it would take too much work to fix. Horrible! Evidently the culprit code was at least 6 years old...

Sorry the correct term is Base Filtering Engine. Look here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-security/win-7-base-filtering-engine-service-missing-gone/aaed4af9-3624-4845-aecb-0381b08d198e?msgId=170b2feb-3a23-46ea-976d-19e8d779a062 http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-security/windows-7-base-filtering-engine-is-not-running/d440bf07-e9fa-40e4-9344-4651a2214cdf http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpronetworking/thread/530e05dc-c97c-405e-b961-6bdf613ca443/ I used this search in google base filtering engine service missing

It won't work that way. If you buy a PC with Downgrade Rights, the OEM/Reseller is supposed to give you a Win7 system with Win8 COA and a copy of Win8 OEM version. If the PC has an OEM COA (doesn't have a product key on it) and Win7 installed, they may provide you with a Win8 Recovery DVD or maybe with both! But a lot of companies will work differently. I can only say which different ways I've seen it. That link will be problematic for most users... since that thread is in the Dev testing forum...

Insane beings from the future says it still works. The part I like is that it was really easy to do. Ease of use is always good for things like this. Well that's enough fiddling for today, back to work...

Has anyone tried this on a later build? I think I'm going to load up Windows 8 and see if it still works.

Windows 8 will allow for Windows 7 Downgrade Rights when RTM hits, which will allow you (like previous times) to purchase a Win8 PC with Windows 7 installed. I'm not sure what you mean by official way to downgrade after the fact...

FAT32X? Wikipedia is very elementary about it.

Something like this?

Maybe you shouldn't. Showing us warez results in us showing you the door.

I will try out the second option in the link. The first option is NOT an option at all. The problem is that the client is not on the domain, but the share is on the DC. I already have an account to use to log into the share and it isn't an admin account in production. It is an admin account on the dev servers but that is just to make things easier for me. I'm not particularly concerned with the credentials being in the shortcut, since the EXE on the share is supposed to delete it anyways.

Thanks for taking a look. It is indeed a DX58SO board, however it is a corporate sample. There are 2 RAID arrays involved besides the RAID5, the other is a RAID1 which holds the boot volume. It is difficult to determine which of these arrays could be causing the problem, other than the MBR read error that Gmer threw. In other testing, the OS will still BSOD when the boot array is degraded (booting with 1 drive). WD Tools flat out refused to test the disks, as it read them as being blank. I had hoped some concrete evidence would show up in the dumps, but an upgrade may be in order. That may either be a total rebuild of the boot array, and/or upgrading the board. Hopefully it doesn't turn out to be caused by the data volume, but since Safe Mode is fairly stable, backing it up shouldn't be a problem.

When you use this: wevtutil al <FileName.evtx> [/l:<LocaleString>] to export... the location of where the .evtx folder ends up, there will be a LocaleMetaData folder created with the .MTA file inside.

I am designing a new application that requires something to be run after a reboot but doesn't exist on the computer. To save against the program being left behind, I wanted to create a shortcut to execute the program on a network share. I have some other options available to me, but wanted to know if such a shortcut is possible. Shortcut sits on the Desktop, points to a program on the file server using a UNC path. This part I can do. The problem is that when the shortcut is executed, Windows prompts for credentials to log into the share. Is it possible for me to create a shortcut that has this information in it already, so that the login is handled automatically? My other option (if this isn't possible) would be to build a .cmd file to sit on the desktop, which would map a drive to execute the file instead.

What an odd looking thing! Anyways, I found a site that shows how to replace the screen, which looks like step 2 says there is a tab that holds the cover on. http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing-Touchscreen-or-Display/7865/1 Personally, I hate tabs, because I have a habit of always breaking them!

Make sure the Base Filter Engine service is enabled.

Do you actually use the Serial or Parallel ports? If not, I'd recommend disabling them in the BIOS. No reason to use up resources for things you never use.

In the future, off topic posts should be made in a new thread, and definately NOT in a developer's thread.

There may well be a better way to code this, but I do not know that answer. I am quite green with VBScript. You should post your code-related question here: http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/66-programming-c-delphi-vbvbs-cmdbatch-etc/ And maybe the real programmers can come up with some other ideas to try.

I would disagree. There are way too many differences between WinPE 3.0 and Windows 7 to rely on testing on a live OS to be enough.

You can generalize twice, so yes.

maybe find something useful... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/97522 These may require login to Google account: My link My link You can try other things to search for in Groups. Another search term that I stumbled across: XL4 macro http://www.jkp-ads.com/articles/excelnames08.asp

Baaaah!

I've got 2 of them, but we are not ruling out a problem with the HDD. The second dump I gathered was when I ran Gmer on it just got kicks. It reported a failure to read MBR on Disk 0 on the initial scan. I do not think I ever ran Gmer in Safe Mode before, so I do not know if that is why I got that error. I was unable to write down or screenshot what it actually said, because then I got a 0x7E STOP error. MODULE_NAME: nt FAULTING_MODULE: 82049000 nt DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 4f766ae5 EXCEPTION_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - The instruction at 0x%08lx referenced memory at 0x%08lx. The memory could not be %s. FAULTING_IP: nt!wcsupr+2aa 820eb2ba 8b5110 mov edx,dword ptr [ecx+10h] EXCEPTION_RECORD: 8c3bbba4 -- (.exr 0xffffffff8c3bbba4) ExceptionAddress: 820eb2ba (nt!wcsupr+0x000002aa) ExceptionCode: c0000005 (Access violation) ExceptionFlags: 00000000 NumberParameters: 2 Parameter[0]: 00000000 Parameter[1]: 09187910 Attempt to read from address 09187910 CONTEXT: 8c3bb780 -- (.cxr 0xffffffff8c3bb780) eax=8c2b26f8 ebx=00000004 ecx=09187900 edx=00000258 esi=00000009 edi=8c2b2120 eip=820eb2ba esp=8c3bbc6c ebp=8c3bbc88 iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz na pe nc cs=0008 ss=0010 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0030 gs=0000 efl=00010206 nt!wcsupr+0x2aa: 820eb2ba 8b5110 mov edx,dword ptr [ecx+10h] ds:0023:09187910=???????? Resetting default scope DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT BUGCHECK_STR: 0x7E CURRENT_IRQL: 0 LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 820c1ed8 to 820eb2ba STACK_TEXT: WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong. 8c3bbc88 820c1ed8 00000000 84bb7720 00000000 nt!wcsupr+0x2aa 8c3bbd50 82252056 00000000 ab22cb2c 00000000 nt!ObfDereferenceObjectWithTag+0x221 8c3bbd90 820fa1a9 820c1d60 00000000 00000000 nt!RtlAnsiStringToUnicodeString+0x19d 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 nt!KeInitializeTimerEx+0x3c6 FOLLOWUP_IP: nt!wcsupr+2aa 820eb2ba 8b5110 mov edx,dword ptr [ecx+10h] SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 0 SYMBOL_NAME: nt!wcsupr+2aa FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner IMAGE_NAME: ntkrpamp.exe STACK_COMMAND: .cxr 0xffffffff8c3bb780 ; kb Uploaded dumps.rar to SkyDrive... apparently let me put the whole thing up there.